About Curaçao – Frangipani Apartments

Carnival on Curaçao

The Antilleans are a festive people and know how to celebrate Carnival like the Brazilians. Year after year, the 24 local Carnival groups present their colorful costumes, painstakingly hand-sewn over…

The fame of Curaçao

Meet Curaçao’s most famous beverage vendor. Day in, day out, you’ll see him tirelessly bustling around the busy Brievengat intersection in Willemstad; from morning till night, in the blaz…

Mangroves – savior of the nation

Around the Spanish Water, you’ll repeatedly see sections of the coastline covered in shrub-like plants with distinctive stilt roots: mangroves. Their attractiveness, due to their many, rather b…

Edwin the Barracuda Fisherman

I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a travel guide about Curaçao for quite some time now, because our guests are often surprised that there isn’t actually a current guidebook for …

Curaçao has gained another exciting museum!

Since September 15th, Curaçao has a new attraction – the Savonet Museum. The Savonet Manor, completely restored at a cost of 6.7 million guilders, is located in Christoffel Park, the island’s m…

The slave Tula posthumously becomes a national hero.

To commemorate the slave revolt of 1795, the famous freedom fighter Tula was declared a national hero in August 2010. On August 17, 1795, dozens of slaves from the Knip plantation, led by Tula, refus…